Show the salmon family of alaska there is nothing more curious connected with the finny tribe than to watch the doings of the salmon family in alaska said frank watson of that territory the most singular thing of all Is that after the females deposit their spawn their earthly career terminates and I 1 have seen the bottoms of creeks covered with their dead bodies they give birth to thousands of their kind and immediately die the young ones are then taken cai e of by the male sal mon and it is a well known tact that in three years from their birth the off spring reappear on the very ground of their origin there are tour va of this superb elsh which make their appearance in regular order of succession in the spring the first to arrive Is the magnificent king salmon which weighs all the nay from 15 to 90 pounds I 1 have myself caught one weighing 52 pounds about june 1 comes the or red salmon which visits our shores in enormous I 1 numbers and which Is the common canning variety A little later ap pears the log salmon which only the indians will eat and finally in august and september the beautiful silver salmon arrives the prettiest fish in all the world and one of the most able when the salmon enter the fresh water by a curious trick of nature their skin becomes red but this pink hue does not affect the whiteness of their flesh it Is seldom that salmon will journey up a glacier stream but the streams that have lakes at their heads literally swarm with them |